Hugh Laurie
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1959-06-11
Place of Birth
Oxford, England, UK
Hugh Laurie
Biography
James Hugh Calum Laurie CBE (known professionally as Hugh Laurie; born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, director, singer, musician, comedian, and author. He is known for portraying the title character on the Fox medical drama series House (2004–2012), for which he received two Golden Globe Awards and nominations for numerous other awards. He was listed in the 2011 Guinness World Records as the most watched leading man on television and was one of the highest-paid actors in a television drama, earning £250,000 ($409,000) per episode of House. His other television credits include arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper in the miniseries The Night Manager (2016), for which he won his third Golden Globe Award, and Senator Tom James in the HBO sitcom Veep (2012–2019), for which he received his 10th Emmy Award nomination. Forced to abandon rowing during a bout of glandular fever, he joined the Cambridge Footlights, a university dramatic club that has produced many well-known actors and comedians. There he met Emma Thompson, with whom he had a romantic relationship, which later ended yet they remain good friends. She introduced him to his future comedy partner, Stephen Fry. Laurie, Fry and Thompson later parodied themselves as the University Challenge representatives of "Footlights College, Oxbridge" in "Bambi", an episode of The Young Ones, with the series' co-writer Ben Elton completing their team.
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Valiant
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Monsters vs Aliens
Mar 19, 2009
Santa's Last Christmas
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Arthur Christmas
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FOX 25th Anniversary Special
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Hop
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The Tale of Jack Frost
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The Young Visiters
Dec 26, 2003
Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space
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The Secret Policeman’s Third Ball
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Blackadder's Christmas Carol
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Mrs. Capper's Birthday
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Blackadder: A Cunning Story
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The Cellar Tapes
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Jul 14, 1997
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A Life On Screen: Stephen Fry
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Experiment IV
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The Laughing Prisoner
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House
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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The Secret Policeman's Ball
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Spooks
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American Idol
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The Young Ones
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The New Statesman
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The Jay Leno Show
Sep 14, 2009
Omnibus Presents Comic Relief
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Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
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The Lenny Henry Show
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The Legends of Treasure Island
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Stuart Little: The Animated Series
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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
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Fortysomething
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Friday Night Live
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Comic Relief
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The Night Manager
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Family Guy
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Wetten, dass..?
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Late Night with Seth Meyers
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QI
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Chance
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All the Light We Cannot See
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Ruby
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Perspectives
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Blackadder
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LIVE with Kelly and Mark
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Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
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All or Nothing at All
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The Reichen Show
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In the Know
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Veep
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The Graham Norton Show
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The Graham Norton Show
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Avenue 5
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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
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The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
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Perspectives
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